Susan Avery Elected to ExxonMobil Board
January 25 2017 - 5:52PM
Business Wire
Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM) announced today the election
of Dr. Susan K. Avery to its board of directors, effective February
1, 2017. Avery, an atmospheric scientist, is the former president
and director of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
With the election of Avery, the ExxonMobil board stands at 13
directors, 12 of whom are non-employee directors.
Avery’s leadership experience in multiple academic and
scientific organizations, coupled with her breadth of scientific
and research expertise, reinforce the corporation’s long-standing
technical and scientific foundation.
She served as president and director of the Woods Hole
Oceanographic Institution from 2008 to 2015, and was the first
woman and the first atmospheric scientist to hold the position.
Avery served as interim dean of the graduate school and vice
chancellor for research, and interim provost and executive vice
chancellor for academic affairs from 2004 to 2008 at the University
of Colorado Boulder. From 1994 to 2004, Avery served as director of
the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, a
collaboration between the University of Colorado Boulder and the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
In 2013, Avery was named to the Scientific Advisory Board of the
United Nations Secretary-General, which provides advice on science,
technology and innovation for sustainable development. She also
serves on the National Research Council Global Change Research
Program Advisory Committee, participates on advisory committees
with NASA, NOAA, the National Science Foundation, and the National
Park System and worked with the Climate Change Science Program from
2003-2004. During her career, Avery authored or co-authored more
than 80 peer-reviewed articles on atmospheric dynamics and
variability.
Avery earned a bachelor’s degree in physics from Michigan State
University, and a master’s in physics and Ph.D. in atmospheric
science from the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign.
She is a professor emerita at the University of Colorado Boulder
and recently served as a senior fellow at the Consortium for Ocean
Leadership in Washington, D.C. She is also a fellow of the American
Meteorological Society, the American Association for the
Advancement of Science, and the Institute of Electrical and
Electronics Engineers
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